This report presents the results of a harm reduction needs assessment survey among the most at-risk homeless youth in Toronto, identify barriers to appropriate health services, and based on the youth’s voices, make recommendations, and advocate for better programs to serve this vulnerable population. It concludes with 12 pages of recommendations.

Everyone that’s had something to do with drugs has heard about endorphins. They’re the “happy chemicals” in your brain that block pain. They’re also produced during certain acupuncture techniques, produce the “high” joggers get, and of course, what makes SEX worth all that trouble!

Another aspect however, though related to drug use (especially opiates), but not as well known to the “general public”, is the role endorphins play in the brain and in basic mental functioning.

Book Reviews

Harm Reduction Journal

The Harm Reduction Journal is an open access, online journal publishes papers on all aspects of prevalent patterns of psychoactive drug use, the public policies meant to control them, and the search for effective methods of reducing the adverse medical, public health, and social consequences associated with both drugs and drug policies.

International Journal of Drug Policy

International Journal of Drug Policy provides a forum for the dissemination of current research, reviews, debate and critical analysis on drug use and drug policy in a global context.